"It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor."

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"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared."

"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years."

"Directors, like actors, get typecast."

"What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me."

"To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle."

"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."

"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

"Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to."

"Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really."

"I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody."

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"It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor."